Loved itthis is a deeply disturbing dystopia that forces you to confront some uncomfortable truths. We can no longer eat animal products, but fear not, we can eat another kind of flesh.
Tender Is the Flesh (2015)
Others: Leaning positive Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
- ISBN:
- 9781782276203
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- 224 pages
Genres: science fiction, horror, thriller
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Loved it
Loved ittender as the flesh, that's a good example.
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Not a fanwhich is the only book I have ever DNFED because it genuinely made me so sick I couldn't keep reading it. It disturbed me so much I couldn't finish it.
MixedI ended up completely hooked on this book and I could not put it down so I finished it in two settings it was a very easy read it has like very simple writing simple writing but beautiful writing and I also just like got so hooked on the story
Loved itthis is a book that is going to be really hard hitting regardless of your feelings on veganism or vegetarianism I am still an omnivore I do eat meat but this is the one book that really made me question whether or not I should be doing this because it was hard to handle.
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Loved itthis has to be the first solid binge read of 2021
Not a fani do kind of feel like this was mostly disturbing i would have liked it if this book dug a little deeper